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Tom Brosz — 4/16/2006 9:04:43 PM (archived)

You found partisan crackpots at a partisan event for a political party. I found one at a university, actively denying other ideas than her own a hearing, and encouraging this in her students.

See any difference at all?

It's the difference between finding drunks in a bar, and finding them in an airline pilot's lounge.

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Free speech on the campus - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 7:03:34 AM
- Here's my question to you. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/18/2006 6:53:51 AM
  - Your post leads me to conclude that the right is mainly composed of commiters of the hasty generalization fallacy - alcaray - 4/18/2006 3:14:10 PM
  - That's "rabblerousing". - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 12:22:14 PM
    - Mary Anne, there is a note on Flame that needs a woman's touch (n/t) - alcaray - 4/18/2006 4:29:41 PM
    - You're not rabble MA you, and others here, are pure rebel. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/18/2006 1:15:23 PM
- Professor suspended - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2006 4:34:48 AM
- re: Free speech on the campus - Robert - 4/17/2006 4:02:07 PM
  - re: Free speech on the campus - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2006 3:04:43 AM
    - The Scarecrow - Robert - 4/18/2006 3:51:26 PM
      - Sorry. You're flailing. - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2006 7:25:01 PM
    - As long as you're prepared to be fined and/or jailed for your action, yes. - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 3:15:53 AM
  - I suspect the people who put up the crosses would have liked this response much less: - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 1:12:14 AM
    - Or any number of responses - Robert - 4/18/2006 3:58:52 PM
      - Just wondering... - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2006 7:30:43 PM
        
        re: Just wondering... - Robert - 4/19/2006 5:02:46 PM
        
        Parallels - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2006 6:54:03 PM
        
        "If you can't stand the imagery, don't do the actions, right? " - Tony - 4/18/2006 9:00:48 PM
        
        The point, and I did have one, was the usual rank hypocrisy. - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2006 3:26:26 PM
        
        Sorta like banning pictures of coffins returning from Iraq... (n/t) - R.L. - 4/19/2006 7:08:35 AM
        
        Sorry. I'm from a long line of farmers. - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2006 12:32:30 AM
        
        Bully for you - Tony - 4/19/2006 1:40:08 AM
- I could describe my night on the floor of the republican convention - R.L. - 4/16/2006 7:04:08 AM
  - I have many more stories about how open minded your side was PRE-9-11 (n/t) - R.L. - 4/16/2006 7:07:23 AM
    - open minded - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 9:04:43 PM
      - Have you lost your mind? - R.L. - 4/16/2006 11:41:10 PM
        
        I'll settle for one example. - Tom Brosz - 4/17/2006 4:16:00 AM
        
        OK..... - R.L. - 4/17/2006 5:25:01 AM
        
        re: OK..... - Tom Brosz - 4/17/2006 6:08:42 AM
        
        Tom,would it matter if I found right wing equivalents of Ward Churchill? - R.L. - 4/17/2006 6:42:22 AM
        
        When did I become a university professor? - Lee - 4/17/2006 8:56:29 AM
        
        LOL... - R.L. - 4/17/2006 10:49:56 AM
        
        re: would it matter? - Tom Brosz - 4/17/2006 6:56:32 AM
- would any number of counterexamples matter? - R.L. - 4/16/2006 6:41:55 AM
- Only "Politically Correct" speech is free. - David F Mayer - 4/16/2006 5:08:49 AM
- Tom, a little less than 2 decades ago... - R.L. - 4/16/2006 4:52:56 AM
  - I'll grant you one point... - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 5:02:51 AM
    - I didn't make that comparison... - R.L. - 4/16/2006 5:14:40 AM
      - You didn't. She did. My thread was about her. Focus. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 8:57:46 PM
      - Just out of curiousity - R.L. - 4/16/2006 5:59:58 AM
        
        re: Just out of further curiousity - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 9:02:23 PM
        
        "Were any of the people yelling hate at abortion clinics college professors charged full-time with educating future generations?" - R.L. - 4/17/2006 3:45:18 AM
- Another example - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 11:35:54 PM
  - Well, that's just dumb. - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 1:42:57 AM
    - Oh, I see... - Mary Anne - 4/18/2006 2:28:43 AM
      - Thank you - tony - 4/19/2006 1:45:30 AM
- re: Free speech on the campus - Publius - 4/15/2006 8:07:21 PM
  - Gravity Probe B. Physics department, mostly. - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 11:19:56 PM
- It takes all kinds - Donald - 4/15/2006 5:42:13 PM
  - This is a university, and a professor. Does that change anything at all? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 6:52:26 PM
    - Not a bit - Donald - 4/15/2006 7:49:12 PM
      - ooops - Donald - 4/15/2006 7:50:00 PM

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